Please enjoy this delightful selection of Irish, and Cork, shorts from the most recent Cork International Film Festival edition. Emerge blinking and dazed into the reality of post lockdown life in&nbsp;Broken: A Lockdown Story. Meet the wonderful Seanie Barron, who takes us on a journey of the imagination in our Audience-Award-winning short documentary&nbsp;Seanie Barron: Only in Askeaton. See life through the eyes of an eccentric immigrant in&nbsp;A Cup of Sugar. Witness a friendship blossom over cycling lessons in&nbsp;As Easy as Riding a Bike. And hang on to your seats for the dark comic thriller&nbsp;Flash_Thunder93. Bain taitneamh as!&nbsp;Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh.

St Patrick's Day 2022 Shorts Programme - Introduction

A man plunges from the sky, a militia chases down two siblings, a woman weeps in a derelict house: vignettes from a surreal family breakdown, visions from an unreliable narration that speaks only in idioms.

Broken: A Lockdown Story

Vignettes from a surreal family breakdown; visions from an unreliable narration that speaks only in idioms

For decades, Seanie Barron has been making walking sticks in a workshop at the back of his house in Askeaton. His creations often appear flamboyantly eccentric, yet all are made with an intuitive practical understanding of nature and the Irish countryside. He roams fields, lanes, bogs and tracks, always looking for a promising branch to shape. His unique vision searches for surreal forms embedded in wood, ranging from UFOs to motorbikes, ice skaters and swimmers, foxes and seahorses and much more…

Seanie Barron: Only in Askeaton

Seanie Barron from Askeaton, Co. Limerick spends all of his free time looking for strange and unusual branches and roots to shape into strange and beautiful walking sticks.

A nonconformist immigrant is pushed to the brink by a community’s judgmental attitude, until an unexpected encounter changes everything.

A Cup of Sugar

A nonconformist immigrant is pushed to the brink by a community’s judgmental attitude, until an unexpected encounter changes everything

Two weather enthusiasts meet for the first time to watch a lightning storm together, both with ulterior motives.

Flash_Thunder93

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